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Newsletter 10 January 2007 MEDICAL GEOLOGY NEWSLETTER International Medical Geology Association Newsletter No. 10 ISSN 1651-5250 MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN THE IMGA “RUSSIA— NIS” DIVISION RUSSIA-NIS AUTHORS IN Inside this issue: THIS NEWSLETTER FROM THE DIRECTORS 2 Left, Dr. Iosif Volfson MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN 4 THE IMGA RUSSIA-NIS Chair, IMGA Russia-NIS DIVISION ISOTOPES 234, 238U AND 7 Division 241Am IN THE ENVIRON- MENT DISTRIBUTION OF NATU- 11 Below: RAL RADON IN THE Left Alexander Gulynin, MOSCOW REGION METHODOLOGY FOR THE 12 Right, Alexey Strodubov RADIOLOGICAL ASSESS- MENT OF UNDERGROUND WATERS IN THE MOSCOW REGION RISK ASSESSMENT RE- 12 LATED TO MINERALS THE CORRELATION OF 18 POTENTIAL FIELDS WITH PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND SOMATIC DISEASES IN LITHUANIA HEALTH OF CATTLE AND 23 WILDLIFE DOWNWIND FROM GAS FACILITIES: THE WESTERN CANADA STUDY BOOK: MEDICAL GEOL- 24 OGY IN BRAZIL FROM THE DIRECTORS Interest in Medical Geology continues to expand directions. worldwide at an increasingly rapid rate, creating nu- merous opportunities. Therefore, we launched the • Bob Finkelman will be teaching a one credit International Medical Geology Association (IMGA) course on Medical Geology at the University of in January 2005. This is the second regular newsletter Texas at Dallas beginning in January. of IMGA and our plans are to send you two newslet- ters like this every year. But we rely on your help and • Regional divisions of IMGA are now under de- we hope that you will submit material for the news- velopment.. The following divisions are estab- letters in a timely manner. lished: South America, Russia and NIS, Sub Sa- hara Africa. The following divisions are under Olle Selinus continues in his capacity as Director of planning: Caribbean and Central America, SE this activity. Jose Centeno and Bob Finkelman are Asia including India, Sri Lanka etc, East Asia, Co-Directors. Dave Elliott will continue his work as Australia, Oceania, North America, Europe, editor of the Newsletter Southern Mediterranean. Some of these are al- Secretary of IMGA is Kim Chisholm, University of most established. Western Australia, Australia, Treasurer is Dave • Education has started at universities in Australia, Slaney, New Zealand. We have also appointed six US and Sweden. Please send information on all Councillors to represent the broad geographic distri- new university courses for the website. bution of Medical Geology and the wide range of dis- ciplines that are embraced by this topic. The • 25-30th September 2006, The 7th International Councilors are: Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry (ISEG) took place in Beijing, China. About 500 Bernardino Ribeiro de Figueiredo (Geologist, Brazil) participants attended. We gave one short course Fiona Fordyce (Geochemist, UK) in medical geology, two plenary speeches and Zheng Baoshan (Geochemist- China). several other talks. Medical geology was very Calin Tatu (Medical researcher, Romania) visible during the whole symposium. Nomathemba Ndiweni (Veterinary Biochemistry, Zimbabwe) Annual reward Philip Weinstein (Epidemiologist, Australia) We are in the process of establishing an annual inter- Also a webmaster, Gunnar Jarl, Sweden national reward on medical geology in Monaco. More information will be in the next newsletter. We are very pleased that such experienced and com- petent people are willing to devote their time and ef- Publications forts on behalf of the Association. As you may recall the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had an international symposiuum on medi- As part of the benefits of our membership at the cal geology in May this year. The papers from this IMGA, the Association can offer the book Essen- meeting will be published in the first issue of the tials of Medical Geology with a 30% discount for prestigious journal of the Academy, Ambio, in a spe- those IMGA members in good standing. Please con- cial issue in January 2007. tact the secretary of IMGA, Kim Chisholm on this and she will arrange it. For new information, please look at the website. What has happened recently? Olle Selinus Bob Finkelman Jose Centeno • Human Health has a prominent place in the draft USGS Science Strategy as one of six new science Page 2 MEDICAL GEOLOGY NEWSLETTER FROM THE DIRECTORS Continued A NEW LISTSERVE The IMGA now has its very own listserv! It is called 'medical-geology'. Medical-geology is administered thro- ugh the UK JISCMAIL system and provides us with an email forum for the exchange of ideas, information and events. You can subscribe to this free facility by sending an email or through the web (www.jiscmail.ac.uk). To subscribe, please send an email to [email protected] with 'medical-geology' in the subject and 'join medical-geology YOUR_FIRSTNAME YOUR_LASTNAME' in the main body of the message. You will then be sent an email to confirm your registration and giving you details of how to send a message to the list, to suspend or to leave the list and some basic etiquette on what the list may and may not be used for. We can also post files on to the list's web page for us to download as we see fit. List archives can also be accessed through the JISCMAIL website (above). This listserve will hopefully fill a need and if it becomes active soon, with the help from you, it will be an easy way to provide everyone with quick information and news. 2nd USGS EARTH SCIENCE AND PUBLIC HEALTH MEETING: NATIONAL CEN- TER IN RESTON. ORIGINALLY SEPTEMBER 2006 RESCHEDULED TO FEBRUARY 27, 28, AND MARCH 1, 2007. This is a forum to foster collaboration between the Public Health and Earth Science Communities, leading to solutions to environmental health problems. The audience is organizations and individuals interested in envi- ronmental and earth science factors affecting human health. This meeting is designed to provide a broad fo- rum for discussion, bringing together a variety of interested parties, including policy makers, scientists, re- source managers, Congressional staffers, Federal and State government, and non-governmental organiza- tions. Overall, the meeting will be set up along six thematic areas: (1) exposure to toxic contaminants in air and dust; (2) chemical and pathogen contaminant exposure by drinking water; (3) human consumption of bioac- cumulative contaminants; (4) pathogen exposure through recreational waters; (5) vector-borne and zoonotic diseases; and (6) animals as sentinels of human health, along which the USGS public health research is aligned. The first day of the meeting - Tuesday, September 12 - is an overview day. Invited are a variety of people including DOI, Congressional staffers, and managers from public health organizations, as well as the scien- tists attending the entire meeting. During this day, we will have a poster session centered around the six topi- cal sessions listed above. The following two days will consist of talks, posters, and break out sessions organ- ized around the six topical sessions. Registration (no cost), information on abstract submittal, agenda, and more at: http://health.usgs.gov/ Newsletter No. 10 MEDICAL GEOLOGY NEWSLETTER MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN THE IMGA “RUSSIA— NIS” DIVISION Dear Colleagues! One of the main targets of the IMGA Regional Division activity is to attract young scientists to Almost five years have passed from that day, when conduct research in the field of medical geology. A IGCP project 454 on Medical Geology became pleasing fact is the active participation of young known in Russia. This wonderful event took place on scientists from our countries in this bulletin. This a warm day, May 3, 2002, during the impressive in- allows us to express a hope for the expansion of troductory lecture of Dr. Robert Finkelman (IMGA medical geology in Russia and N.I.S. – and, of course Co-Chair for geoscience) on Medical Geology, at the in other member countries of IMGA. The paper 234,238 241 Vernadsky State Geological Museum in Moscow. “Isotopes of U and Am in the Environment, Dr. Finkelman was one of the leaders of the Interna- and Modeling Experiments” by Alexei Starodubov tional Working Group on Medical Geology of the and Alexandr Gulynin, who graduated from the Commission on Geological Sciences for Environ- Moscow Skryabin Veterinary Academy, Chair of mental Planning. Two years and three months have Radio Biology in 2001 and 2002 respectively (see passed from the date of the Workshop on Metals and photos on front page). They carried out their Health held on September 6 – 7, 2003 in Edinburgh experiments around the city of Bryanck, which was where only two representatives from N.I.S. contaminated with radionuclides in April and May (Kazakhstan and Russia) were present. Today, we are 1986, after the Chernobyl catastrophy. A methodol- able to introduce the results of research carried out by ogy for radiation safety assessments of underground scientists from the N.I.S. medical geology commu- water is presented by Dmitry M. Zuyev, Ph.D. (who nity within the framework of IMGA Regional Divi- defended his thesis in 2006, May) in the paper “A sion Russia – NIS, which was established in July Methodology for the Radioecological Assessment of 2006. Underground Waters in the Moscow Region”. The initiative of a special issue of Medical Geology The distribution of Natural radon in the Moscow Newsletter with contributions from scientists from region is considered by Anastassia L. Dorozhko (who N.I.S. has come out at the same time as the establish- defends her thesis next year) in the paper “The ment of the IMGA Regional Division. This initiative Distribution Of Natural Radon In The Moscow was supported by IMGA headquarters, IMGA Chair- Region”. man, Dr. Olle Selinus, and the editor of the bulletin, Dr. David Elliott. Today we are pleased to introduce Dr. Igor L. Komov (Ukraine) has revealed new some results of the studies carried out by the scien- factors in the field of radon safety in his paper “Risk tists from Russia and Ukraine to the international Assessment Related To Minerals”.
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